Enterprise Manager: Failed to create website 0x80070020

Challenge Attempting to install/upgrade Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager fails with the following error: Failed to create website 0x80070020 Cause Local antivirus or antimalware software is interfering with the installation process. Solution Disable any local antivirus or antimalware software and...

Guest Files Restore Missing Drive Using Storage Spaces

Veeam Explorer Appliancation Item Restores Some Application Item Restores use Guest Files Restore on the backend to mount the VM's Guest OS disks and access their contents to perform the application item restore. If the files needed to perform the application item restore are located on a Storage...

How to manually remove restore points from a VMware Replica

Purpose This article documents how to remove restore points from a Veeam Backup & Replication replica in a vSphere environment. The replica must be in a state where: the latest run was successful the job is not currently running failover is not currently active. Solution Remove old restore points...

Data loss risk with Backup Copy to Data Domain via DDBoost

Challenge Backup Copy job retention processing overlapping with the DD Clean process garbage collection may result in data loss. Cause Backup Copy job retention processing overlapping with the DD Clean process garbage collection may result in data loss due to Data Domain erroneously processing fi...

Veeam ONE Reporter\Business View installation fails

Challenge Veeam ONE installation\upgrade fails on the Reporter\Business View site deployment step. Cause Antivirus software may prevent applications from making changes to IIS, which is used by Veeam Reporter and Business View components to deploy their sites. Solution Disable antivirus software ...

Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 Patch 1

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 Update 1 Cause Please confirm you are running version 8.0.0.807, 8.0.0.817 or 8.0.0.831 prior to installing...

Guest OS and Guest DNS name properties are empty or not updating on Hyper-V virtual machines

Challenge Guest OS and Guest DNS name properties are empty or not updating on Hyper-V virtual machines Cause Veeam Management Pack 7.0 R2 for Hyper-V contains a bug which prevents these properties from being collected Solution Patch is available for Veeam Hyper-V Management Pack. Please contact...

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server displays no content

Challenge When performing a SQL Item Restore, Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server launches successfully, but no content is displayed. The following is an example of what should be seen when the restore is working properly: Cause The account used to perform Application-Aware Image Processing f...

Using the Diskshadow Utility to Manually Test VSS Operations

Windows Server Required This article documents how to use Diskshadow , which is only available in Server versions of Windows 2008+. Purpose This article documents how to manually create a volume shadow copy using the Diskshadow command-line utility in Windows. Cause Veeam products use the Microso...

Backup Service Will Not Start Due To Group Policy

Challenge The Veeam Backup Service starts and then immediately stops. Svc.VeeamBackup.log contains errors such as: Error Unable to acquire privilege 'SeBackupPrivilege'. Error Unable to acquire privilege 'SeRestorePrivilege'. Cause According to the Required Permissions page of the user guide, the...

License Update Fails In Networks Where HTTP Proxy Must Be Used

Challenge License updating may fail if the machine where the Veeam software is installed does not have a direct connection to the Internet and must instead connect to the Internet via an HTTP proxy. For example, when this occurs with Veeam Backup & Replication, the Svc.VeeamBackup.log shows eithe...

How to configure Email Notifications when using Gmail or Google Apps Mail

Solution Select the product below to be taken to the product-specific information for using Google Gmail to send email notifications. Veeam Backup & Replication v12 Veeam Backup & Replication v13 Veeam ONE v12 Veeam ONE v13 Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7+ Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows v6+...

Issue with Hyper-V Reports in MP builds 7.0.0.1911 and 7.0.0.1913

Challenge The following Hyper-V reports show no performance data: Performance Forecast for Hyper-V Clusters Performance Forecast for Hyper-V Storage Host Failure Modelling What-If VM Deployment Planning model existing VMs What-If VM Deployment Planning manual resource entry Virtual Machines...

Critical update rollup for Veeam Backup and Replication 8.0.0.817

Challenge Critical update rollup for Veeam Backup and Replication 8.0.0.817 for Hyper-V This update rollup fixes the following Hyper-V processing issues: CBT does not track changes correctly on VHDX disks files larger than 2 TB veeam.com/KB1961 Existing Hyper-V backup and replication jobs...

Veeam Management Pack for System Center 7.0 R2 Update

Challenge Release notes for Veeam Management Pack for System Center 7.0 R2 Update Cause Please confirm you are using Veeam MP version 6.0, 6.5 or 7.0 prior to installing this patch. You can check this in SCOM Console | Administration | Management Packs. The 7.0 GA version of Veeam MPs will be...

Existing Hyper-V backup and replication jobs processing VM with SCSI disks start to consume x2 space on target storage after upgrade to v8

Challenge After upgrading to v8 the following issues are observed with the existing jobs processing Hyper-V VMs with SCSI disks: 1. First backup job run will transfer entire VM disks into the incremental backup storage. The following job runs will operate normally - regular incremental restore...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows: Service suddenly stopped working.

Challenge While running Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows VAW, the Control Panel displays the error: Services suddenly stopped working. Cause The Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Control Panel has lost contact with the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows service on the local machine. Possible caus...

Tape Inventory With: "Unknown media (possibly in use by another application)."

Challenge A tape inventory or catalog operation fails with the following error: Cannot inventory tape in Drive 1 Server: , Library: , Drive ID: TapeX. Unknown media possibly in use by another application. Cause This error is shown when Veeam Backup & Replication does not recognize the MTF header ...

Hyper-V backup or replication job with guest-processing fails after installing Windows Update KB3000853

After installing November roll-up update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3000853 on 2012 Hyper-V hosts, VSS-enabled backups may be failing in any backup solution. In Veeam you will get "Unable t...

CBT does not track changes correctly on VHDX disks files larger than 2 TB

Challenge Veeam Change Block Tracking CBT driver incorrectly parses virtual disk file change information causing jobs to failover to "full scan" incremental passes in case of VSS backup or to create an empty incremental backup in case of crash-consistent backup when both of the following conditio...